So when I started getting back into comics after about ten years away (this would have been in the early 00s), I of course started out with the titles I'd always known and loved--Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Legion of Superheroes. (No X-books, though. Some things, I don't forgive.) I also decided, since the now-fourteen-year-old watched the Batman cartoon that was on at the time, that I'd like to read Batman.
Of course, as anyone more familiar with DC Comics than I was (I'd read nothing but Marvel and the Legion for most of my comic-reading life, so had little knowledge of DC continuity) would have known, "reading Batman" wasn't as simple as all that. There was, of course, Batman. There was Detective. There was a regular title with Superman and Batman. And there were Batman-related miniseries. Oh yeah, there were miniseries, at least one going at any one time and probably more. And none of them seemed to connect with any of the others. I probably kept with it for a year, maybe a little more, maybe a little less. Most of the stories were pretty good. But...as it turns out, I don't care a whole lot about Batman. His supporting cast is another matter--they're a lot of fun. But Batman himself? Kind of leaves me cold.
After that I gave up on the non-LSH DC titles for a while, until a few years ago when the internet told me I should check out things like Green Lantern and the Morrison JLA run. And now about 1/3 of the books I read are DC, go figure.
But none of those have been Batman titles--until the recent RIP/Hush thing. Which I'm getting for reasons other than Batman himself. And you know...I still don't much care about Batman as a character. But his place in the DC universe, that I can see a lot of value in.
2 comments:
I think a lot of it depends on the era you fall into. Most people I know who started reading Batman during the O'Neil/Adams era (including myself) have been voracious Batman readers our entire lives.
'Course, we're also all older than DIRT ... ;-)
Huh, so you don't read the X-books... I don't blame you, mutants in the Marvel universe have been treated horibly as of late, and I, being a life long X-Fanatic dread reading any new X-Title that comes my way every month.
However, there were some good X-stories that came out of the 90's. I'd strongly recommend the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline. It's a crossover, which you seem to hate, but you might be able to get it cheap in tpb form somewhere. "AOA" to this day is still my favorite X-related storyline ever, and I'm always trying to get others to pick it up.
Also, if you don't care for Batman as a character, maybe you'd enjoy Nightwing, who is kind of like Batman-lite.
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